Sakha (Yakut) people

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The Sakha (Yakut) people are a Turkic-speaking Indigenous group of northeastern Siberia, known for their horse and cattle pastoralism, rich epic oral traditions, and cultural adaptation to the extreme climate of the Russian Far East.

All labels observed (5)

Label Occurrences
Yakuts 6
Sakha people 3
Sakha (Yakut) people canonical 2

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (54)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Indigenous people
Turkic people
ethnic group
nomadic pastoralist people
alsoKnownAs Sakha (Yakut) people
surface form: Yakut people

Sakha (Yakut) people
surface form: Yakuts
autonomousEntity Sakha Republic
surface form: Sakha Republic (Yakutia)
climateAdaptation extreme subarctic climate
culturalFeature jewelry making
rich epic oral traditions
throat singing
wood carving
culturalFestival Yhyakh festival
historicalInfluence Russian Empire
Soviet Union
intangibleHeritage Olonkho epic
languageFamily Turkic languages
locatedIn Russia Far East
surface form: Russian Far East

northeastern Siberia
mainCountry Russia
modernReligion Russian Orthodox Church
surface form: Russian Orthodoxy
nativeName Sakha
surface form: Саха
oralTradition Olonkho epic
populationRegion largest ethnic group in the Sakha Republic
primaryLanguage Sakha language
primaryRegion Sakha Republic
Yakutia
recognizedBy UNESCO
relatedEthnicGroup Dolgan people
Even people
Evenki people
other Turkic peoples
subgroupOf Turkic peoples
surface form: Northern Turkic peoples
traditionalClothing decorated leather clothing
fur garments
traditionalDrink kumys
traditionalEconomy cattle pastoralism
fishing
fur trapping
horse pastoralism
hunting
traditionalFood frozen raw fish (stroganina)
traditionalHousing log houses
yurts
traditionalLivestock Yakut cattle
Yakut horse
traditionalReligion Sakha shamanism
Tengrism
UNESCOStatus Masterpiece of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity (Olonkho)
writingSystem Cyrillic script
YhyakhFestivalType summer solstice festival
YhyakhPractices horse rituals
kumys drinking
rituals to deities

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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Sakha Republic ethnicGroup Sakha (Yakut) people
Siberia ethnicGroup Sakha (Yakut) people
this entity surface form: Yakuts
Tengrism associatedPeople Sakha (Yakut) people
this entity surface form: Yakuts
Olenyok indigenousCulture Sakha (Yakut) people
this entity surface form: Yakut culture
Yakutia ethnicGroup Sakha (Yakut) people
Sakha language ethnicGroup Sakha (Yakut) people
this entity surface form: Sakha people
Sakha language ethnicGroup Sakha (Yakut) people
this entity surface form: Yakut people
Sakha (Yakut) people alsoKnownAs Sakha (Yakut) people
subject surface form: Sakha people
this entity surface form: Yakut people
Sakha (Yakut) people alsoKnownAs Sakha (Yakut) people
subject surface form: Sakha people
this entity surface form: Yakuts
Sakha Academic Theater culturalHeritage Sakha (Yakut) people
this entity surface form: Sakha people
Turkic peoples hasEthnicSubgroup Sakha (Yakut) people
this entity surface form: Yakuts
Eastern Siberia indigenousPeople Sakha (Yakut) people
this entity surface form: Yakuts
Yakut usedByEthnicGroup Sakha (Yakut) people
this entity surface form: Sakha people
Verkhoyansky District hasEthnicGroup Sakha (Yakut) people
this entity surface form: Yakuts